Here's a quick something I threw together over the last few days.
Started in ZBrush, modeled the terrain - then transferred into Vue where it was rendered. Final cleanup and finessing in Photoshop. Give it a click for a bigger version.

Ha, Sumaleth! I knew you've still be around. I went to New Zealand twice - once in 2002 for six months and then I went in the end of 2004 to work on Kong. And I still am in New Zealand. So the experience is still going on!

Yes, I dropped off the face of the earth for a long time and I don't expect this to be a permanent return either. But it's always nice to say hi!_________________http://baustaedter.com/

I didn't know Vue could be so useful, actually I didn't know much about Vue at all. In the last few years I've mostly been doing realtime 3d graphics for mobile devices so I've dropped off the loop on latest advancements in 3d _________________www.TimoVihola.comwww.MountainSheep.net

Sumaleth: Thanks, I co-designed Minigore with my programmer brother. It's still quite simple game but we now have a bigger team working on the content & updates. I know the multiplayer update will be big, it's just very hard to nail those final performance optimizations. Last time I checked the overall sales it was close to half a million copies.

Good to see you're still alive. Although I've not been around art-forums and similar stuff on the next for a long while, so I wouldn't really know who is still active outside of my rare visits to sijun.

Holy fuck! All my veteran favourites are crawling out of their holes! Good to see you guys! And thanks for the kudos.
I'm using a lot more 3D these days I guess - basically using anything that helps me getting a decent result.

Vue is a pretty good tool and yields fantastic results once one learns how to cope with the clunky user interface, the frequent crashes and the loooooooooooong render times.

I'm working on a new image right now - really unspectacular but I'll post it here once it's done

glitterbug - omg - the legendary green monkey thread! I still have a few I collected somewhere. Makes me all sentimental!_________________http://baustaedter.com/

uh damn;
I don't like to drool in the same pot as others did .. but what should I say but this's really stunning, also looked at ur blogged steps - great work, especially on the trees _________________.. err but maybe its the other way around ..or maybe I lost it .. back then